but if you're not going to work and you can't run a business that way. >> congress isn't governing, in your opinion? >> no. you can't run a business that way. you can't run a country that way. and, ed, the numbers that you pointed out are -- it's good for people to know that. but it's even worse than what the numbers indicate. you know, the number of days that are scheduled for this year, you can already subtract one day from that. we were supposed to be meeting last wednesday and we decided not to. and those first days of every week when we work, we don't have any votes scheduled until 6:30 at night. then what we don't finish up that evening, we wrap up the next day and if there's anything else to do, we wrap it up the following morning. >> it's the money, corporate money, isn't it? >> it is. money has really corrupted the entire political process. the sad story, ed, here is that the one with the most money generally gets the most votes. so, people have come to the conclusion -- and, quite frankly, understandably so -- there's no sense running unless you're going to have at least enou